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. A'XLB BOX POR VEHICLE WHEELS. No. 260,838'. PatentedJulyll, 1882.

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- 'WIEm UNITED STATES PATENT @Eric DANIEL W. BRUTON, OF HARRISVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

i AXLE-BOX FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming peut 0f Letters Patent N0. 260,838, dated July 11, 1882.

Application filed April 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all 'whom lit may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. BnUToN, of Harrisville, in the county of Montgomery and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mounting Yehiele-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the g following is at'ull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aeeompanying drawings, which form apart ofthis specification.

Figure l is a side view of the spindle. Fig. 2 is a side view7 of the loose or revolving axlebox. Fig. 3 is a side view of the nut, and Fig. is a longitudinal sectional view ot' the device complete.

e Corresponding parts in the 'several iigures are denoted by like letters of reference.

M y invention relates to vehicle-wheels; and it consists in the construction and arrangement ot' a loose and revolving axle-box fitted between the spindle'and the usual fixed axle-box, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents the hub of an ordinary vehicle-wheel. B is the axle-box, which is fitted in the same in the usual manner, and held securely by its feathers G. D is the spindle, and E the axle. v l

F is a loose or revolving axle-box, the interior diameter of which isequal to the exterior diameter of the spindle, while its exterior diameter is equal to the interior diameter of the fixed axle-box B. The spindle is iitted in said box F and the latter in the box B, where it may revolve freely. The loose -box F has at its inner end a iiange, G, abutting against the inner end of the fixed axle-box B.

, car wheels of all kinds; also to the wheels ot machinery where itis desirable to reduce friction toa minimum in a simple and convenient manner. y

I am aware that an axle-box arranged to revolve upon the spindle and within the axle-box proper secured in the hub is not new, and such I do not claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- The combination and arrangement, as described, of the spindle, the inner anged axlebox revolving upon the latter, andan axle-box Vsecured within the hub and mounted upon the said inner axle-box, between the ange of the latter and a iianged nut, as herein shown and specified.

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL WESLEY BEUTON.

l Witnesses:

B. H. Monnis, J.'T. WADE. 

